District coordinators, Enhancing community resilience programme, Malawi

The Enhancing Community Resilience Programme (ECRP) aims to increase communities’ resilience to climate change in Malawi. This new programme aims to enable households to build resilient livelihoods that are sustainable and profitable, incorporating natural resource management and risk reduction, increasing adaptive capacity and enabling vulnerable households to have a voice in decisions affecting them. The programme is being implemented in seven districts in central and southern Malawi by a consortium led by Christian Aid. Consortium members include CARE, Action Aid, technical resource partners and a number of local implementing partners. ECRP is funded by the UK’s Department for International Development, Irish Aid and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The District Coordinators will be based in the offices of ECRP implementing partners Evangelical Association of Malawi (Chikwawa) and Churches Action in Relief and Development (Mulanje). They will ensure effective programme delivery and provide technical capacity building support to partners in disaster risk reduction and climate change programming. They will be responsible for results-based monitoring and documentation of change to feed into advocacy and policy work and to enable sharing of best practice across the ECRP consortium and with external stakeholders as appropriate.

Candidates for these roles should have a degree in a relevant discipline, and good knowledge of the requirements of institutional donors. They must be familiar with programme management cycles, including participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation. Experience of developing partners’ capacity is essential, as is experience of project negotiation, appraisal and evaluation. Candidates must also have an understanding of emergency preparedness and humanitarian aid, and their link to development work. Experience of training and workshop facilitation would be an advantage, as would an understanding of gender and exclusion.

Please show your suitability for this post by giving answers to the following questions in the application form. Using the guidance notes available on our website may help you formulate your answers.

Delivery of goals and objectives

Please describe a time when you had to deliver an ambitious project at a time when your organisation was going through a process of significant change.

How did you revise your project planning in response to these changes?
How did you manage expectations of others in the project and communicate the impact of the changes on the project?
Was the project delivered, and if so, how successfully?

Impact and influence

Please describe a time when you had to convince someone else to see your point of view.

Who were you trying to convince and on what topic?
How did you present your arguments?
How did you know if you were successful or not?

Team working

While working in a team, have you ever volunteered to take on additional tasks in order to support the group’s efforts?

What was the situation?
Why did you volunteer to take on those tasks and how was t his received by others in the team?

Attention to detail

Please describe a multi-faceted project that you worked on or a complex report that you wrote.

What quality control or review mechanism did you put in place?
What feedback did you receive from others?
How did you incorporate that feedback into the final product, and to what extend did this feedback improve the final product?

We value the contribution each person makes to the success of our organization. That’s why you can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

Download the role profile (76 KB pdf)

To apply for this post, please download an application pack and email your completed International application form to: Malawi@christian-aid.org quoting the job reference number.

Please note that CVs will not be accepted

Job reference: ECRP/2011/04 (based in Chikwawa) or ECRP/2011/05 (based in Mulanje)

Closing date: Monday 14 November 2011

Interview date: 24 November 2011

Christian Aid values diversity and aspires to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.